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Lloydy
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I have just posted a reply to Zeb on his thread "What a treasure find!" about an old box that my gran aunt gave me in 1998.
It contained all my great aunt's and uncles confirmation books, a very old family bible with all their birth dates and their parents and some other family members. Photographs of each them when they were young, together with my ggrandparents. All have pride of place on the wall going up the stairs. I was also lucky enough to be given a few birth certificates, 2 death certificates but the best thing has to be my great uncle's service medal from World War One. He died in service in 1917 in Israel.
I will never part with them!
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Bennett, Challinor/Challenor, Mills, Evans, Lewis, Owen, Owens, Trow, James, Ashton, Betton/Beaton, Breese, Breeze, Crisp, Davies, Elias, Hudson, Hughes, Jenkins, Turner, Richards, Gethin, Trow, Tudor, Simon....plus tons of Jones!!! - All my Montgomeryshire lot!!
Challinor/Challenor - Shocklach, Cheshire
Betton - Worthen, Shropshire
Trow - emigrated from Wales to New Zealand
Census & BMD information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Darcy
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Posts: 4088
Searching for little needles in big haystacks
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Unfortunately Jena and I never knew any of our grandparents so we have no family heirlooms. 
What we do treasure is our father's apprenticeship indentiture with Harland & Wolfe Shipyard, Belfast Northern Ireland and a photo of him wearing his International Cap when he played football for Ireland against Lanarkshire.
Darcy
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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire. Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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nutkin
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1075
My reason for digging! A baby nutkin!
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Funny this came up. The past few months my father has been giving me things from the family. I grew up in the house and never knew the history behind things sitting on the shelves and in closets. At 31 years of age, he has decided I am ready to take over the family "treasures". The most recent list is:
My g-g grandmother's coffee grinder. Actually quite pretty with dovetails and lovely iron turnrer.
My g-g grandmothers large portrait that was from the Ukraine. It was carried by foot and horse from the Ukraine to Germany where they jumped ship in Hamburg to the US and then by train to NJ. Still in one peice nd rather large to carry.
My g grandmothers piece of "artwork" Actutally a painting by an artist called Wallace Nutting. Popluar in the US in the rising middle class in the 1920's.
My g-g grandmothers engagement ring and silver tea service from England.
The best thing I was given was a folder of photos that I had never seen. I am now to be the keeper of our tradition and history. A blessing or a nighmare as I am the only one of my generation intereted in the family! 
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Shields & Milner- Patrington & Bilton, Yorkshire Nixon & Bowers - Appleby, Broughton & Messingham, Lincolnshire Hancock &Tyson- Tetford, Skendleby & Spilsby, Lincolnshire Cochrane- Darvel, Loudon, Ayrshire Yuill, Hardie- Paisley, Renfrewshire Kennedy, Gardener & Clelland- Glasgow, Lanarkshire & Paisley, Renfrewshire Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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